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Rand says that putting friendship or family above one's work is immoral, and she treats the state like a useful tool such as electricity. She warns against judging without absolutes, urging personal responsibility. She also celebrates the fight for freedom, rights, and the daring of early innovators.

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Great men can't be ruled.

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Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

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No man can use his brain to think for another.

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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

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A government is the most dangerous threat to man

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I am a man who does not exist for others.

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And man will go on. Man, not men.

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In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

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Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

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If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

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Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

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I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

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The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

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When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

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Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

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When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

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The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning…

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Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good;…

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“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its…

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As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as…

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Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence,

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Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason,…

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Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's…

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Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither…

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An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of…

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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East…

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Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism…

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The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable…

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The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior…

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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small…

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God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a…

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I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder…

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There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about…

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These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the…

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There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of…

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Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a…

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Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

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Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see,…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.